* I repeat … that all power is a trust, that we are responsible for its exercise. Benj. Disraeli.
* Trust God for great things. With your five loaves and two fish, he will show you how to feed thousands. Horace Bushnell.
* The less you trust others, the less they will deceive you. Rochefoucauld.
* An undivided heart, worshiping only God and trusting Him as it should, rises above anxiety for earthly needs. JC Geikie.
* Trust in men and they will be faithful to you; Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Emerson.
* When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we learn to trust God, whom we have not seen. James Freeman Clarke.
* I would rather walk in the dark and hold firmly to a promise from my God, than trust the light of the brightest day that ever dawned. CH Spurgeon.
* I don’t know where His islands / His border palms rise in the air; / I only know that I cannot drift / Beyond His love and care. Whittier.
* Oh holy trust! Oh feeling of endless rest! / Like beloved John / Rest your head on the Savior’s chest, / And so on! Longfellow.
* Don’t let consanguinity titles betray you in a damaging trust; there is no blood more apt to raise fever or cause consumption in your poor state than the one closest to yours. F. Osborn.
* What suits us, enhanced in beauty and wonder as we are, is joy and courage, and the effort to fulfill our aspirations. Will not the heart that has received so much trust in the power by which it lives? Emerson.
* All persons who possess any portion of power must be strongly and terribly impressed with the idea that they act with confidence, and that they must render an account of their conduct in that confidence to the only great Teacher, Author and Founder of society. Burke.
* My confidence is not that I am holy, but that, being ungodly, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or will be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and should be, in what Christ did and continues to do while standing before that throne of glory. CH Spurgeon.
* We come, in our trust, to God, and the moment we embrace him like this, by surrendering our total being and our eternity to him, we discover that everything is transformed. There is life in us from God; a kind of Christ consciousness opens in us, witnessing with the apostle: Christ lives in me. Horace Bushnell.
* We only ask you to give to Christ what you give to others, to transfer old emotions, the blessed emotions, the exercise of which brings joy to life here below, to transfer them to Him and to rest safely in The Lord. Faith is trust. Alexander Maclaren.
* How unreasonable is a pure act of faith in someone like us, if we cannot have the same faith in God. Richard Cecil.
* It is a vision of God that compensates for everything else and allows the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child screams at night in terror, hearing sounds that he does not know, does that child console himself and put him to rest? Is it because of a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by rats on the part. Is it imparting entomological knowledge? Not; It is when the mother takes the child on her lap, sings sweetly to him and rocks him. And the child does not think about the explanation, but only about the mother. HW Beecher.
* Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order. Square.
* The truth has a calm chest. Shakespeare.
* The expression of truth is simplicity. Seneca.
* The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less the question of authorship matters. Emerson.
* The truth illuminates and gives joy, not pleasure, that the spirit of men is indissolubly sustained. Matthew Arnold.
* If I had the whole truth in my hand, I would be careful to open it to men. Fontenelle.
* The truth does not do as much good in the world as its appearance does bad. La Rochefoucauld.
* The opposite of what is said about men and things is often the truth. The heather.
* The truth is as impossible to dirty with any external touch as the ray of the sun. Milton.
* Truth forever on the scaffold; evil forever on the throne. Lowell.
* It is not only about avoiding error, but about reaching huge masses of truth. Carlyle.
* The truth sometimes comes as a surprise to the Caution and sometimes he speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream. Landor.
* The greatest truths are usually the simplest. Malesherbes.
* We should never throw a real bushel because it contains some grains of straw. Dean Stanley.
* The truth does not consist of the minute precision of the details; but to convey a good impression. Dean Alford.
* The golden rays of truth and the silk cords of love, intertwined, will attract men with sweet violence, whether they want it or not. Cudworth. Give us that calm certainty of the truth, that closeness to You, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, that we will need to overcome the problems of this. Beecher.
* If I had a device, it would be the true one, the only true one, leaving the beautiful and the good to resolve matters after the best possible way. Sainte-Beuve.
* It is not necessary to tell the whole truth, unless it is addressed to those who have the right to know it; But let everything you say be true Horace Mann.
* It is only when one is completely true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself. Auerbach.
* The most useful truths are the clearest; and as long as we respect them, our differences cannot rise too high. William Penn.
* Truth can be stretched, but it cannot be broken, and it always rises above falsehood, as oil does above water. Cervantes.
* The truth will never be tedious for those who travel through the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that fills us up. Seneca.
* The truth is a jewel that is found in great depth; while on the surface of this world all things are weighed by the false balance of habit. Byron.
* General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason. Rousseau.
* Great truths always dwell for a long time in small minorities, and the true voice of God is often the one that rises above the masses, not the one that follows them. Francis Lieber.
* The truth takes the seal of the souls into which it enters. It is harsh and harsh in arid souls, but tempers and softens in loving natures. Joubert.
* The truth is like a pearl: only possessed by those who have plunged into the depths of life and have torn their hands on the rocks of Time. Laboulaye.
* I have seldom met someone who would abandon the truth to trivialities that could be relied upon on important matters. Paley.
* The greatest friend of truth is time; his greatest enemy is prejudice; and his constant companion is humility. Colton.
* A man has no more right to tell falsehoods for his own contempt than for his own praise. The truth is absolute. It is mandatory in all circumstances and in all relationships. Dr. Kitto.
* The truth can hardly be expected to suit crooked politics and the cunning twists and turns of worldly affairs; because truth, like light, travels only in a straight line. Colton.
* The truth is the object of our understanding, as well as of our will; and the understanding cannot delight in a lie any more than the will can choose an apparent evil. Dryden.
* Stick to the truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. What comes to you with time, time will take away; what is eternal will remain in your heart. Esaias Tegner.
* The way of truth is like a great way. It is not difficult to know. The evil is just that men will not seek it. Go home and find him. Mencius.
* The truth is pleasant to man. Moral truth is then most consummated when, like beauty, it praises itself without question. The righteous not only do what is right, but love to do it. FW Newman.
* The greatest truths are aggrieved if they are not linked to beauty, and they make their way in the safest and most profound way in the soul, when they are organized in this, which attracts its naturalness and form. Channing.
* The golden rays of truth and the silk cords of love, intertwined, will attract men with sweet violence, whether they want it or not. Cudworth.
* Certainly, the truth must be energetic and bold; but the loudest things are not always the loudest, as anyone who compares scolding with logic can see. Chapin.
* Weigh not so much what men say as what they prove; remembering that the truth is simple and naked, and does not need invective to dress its beauty. Sir P. Sidney.
* As it has been finely expressed, “The beginning is a passion for the truth.” And as an earlier and more homely writer put it: “The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.” Bulwar-Lytton.
* The truth in the internal parts is a power, not an opinion. George MacDonald.
* There is an inner state of the heart that makes the truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men for what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly; it’s amazing for other men. FW Robertson.
* The saying that the truth always triumphs over the persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods that men repeat one after another until they pass into common places, but that all experience refutes. J. Stuart Mill. (Witness the Holocaust!)
* Truth descends from the heights of philosophy to the humblest realms of life, and ascends from the simplest perceptions of a clumsy intellect to discoveries that almost change the face of the world. At every stage of his progress he is cool, bright, creative. Edward Everett.
* Truth is the beginning of all good, both in heaven and on earth; and whoever wants to be blessed and happy must be a participant of the truth from the beginning, so that he can live as a true man for as long as possible, because then he can be trusted; But he who loves willful falsehood should not be trusted, and he who loves involuntary falsehood is a fool. Plato.
* Everything that happens in the world of nature and man: every war, every peace, every horn of prosperity, every horn of adversity, every choice, every death, every life, every success and every failure, every change, every permanence, the Dead Leaf, the unspeakable glory of the stars: all things speak truth to the reflective spirit. Rufus Choate.